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Monday April 21, 2025. 07:36 PM
Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. From a report: The drama began to unfold Monday in a Washington courtroom as three weeks of...
Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality regulations 'went literally nowhere.' Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules. 'I ...
Major scholarly databases have removed dozens of academic journals after researchers discovered they had been purchased by questionable companies and transformed into predatory publications. A January 2025 study identified 36 legitimate journals acquired by recently formed...
The FBI says it is unable to find records related to its purchase of a series of hacking tools, despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them and those purchases initially being included in a public U.S. government procurement database before being quietly...
Over 100 mid-market software companies are caught in a dangerous 'squeeze' between AI-native startups and tech giants, according to a new AlixPartners study released Monday. The consulting firm warns many face 'threats to their survival over the next 24 months' as generative ...
Global alcohol consumption has entered what appears to be a permanent decline, with total volume peaking at 25.4 billion liters in 2016 and falling approximately 13% since then, according to data from market research firm IWSR. Per-capita consumption has dropped dramatically ...
In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. A University of Virginia academic journal says the book 'appraises the past and present' of information technology while issuing 'a warning about its future.' And...
Chad Anderson is the founder/managing partner of the early-stage VC Space Capital (and an investor in SpaceX, along with dozens of other space companies). Space Capital produces quarterly reports on the space economy, and he says today, unlike 2021, 'the froth is gone. But...
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican said Monday. The pontiff, who was Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, became pope in 2013 after his predecessor Benedict XVI resigned. On February 14, the Pope was admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment....
With more companies requiring workers to return to an office five days a week, 'Anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent,' writes the Washington Post. They raise the possibility that 'strict office mandates have the potential to...
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that's 'a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than...
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. He's now sharing his latest project — installing Llama 2 on DOS: Conventional wisdom states that...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology ...
Sunday April 20, 2025. 11:55 PM
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole,' reports Science News — 'one with no star orbiting it.' It's 'the only one so far,' says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup 'whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X...' Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu....
'Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America...' reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America 'began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed,...
'Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels...' the University of Oregon wrote last year. 'Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduce greenhouse gas...
'The time has come for me to step away,' ArcoLinux lead Erik Dubois posted last week. ('After eight years of dedication to the ArcoLinux project and the broader Linux community...') 'Learn, have fun, and enjoy' was our motto for the past eight years — and I really had fun...
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